Life’s too short not to quote Austin Powers!
Good day everyone! I thought it was about time to do my Newbie introduction, ironic considering I have now moved on to Tire-Kicker status. With all the heavy discussions lately and tragic news among the people in the VMF community this may seen as completely off topic, but a formal introduction is something I have observed to be welcome, appropriate and well received among the regulars here.
My name is Tom, and my wife, dog and I live and work in central New Jersey. I’d been putting off this intro until my website was updated. Please go here: www.mendhams.com/cars The site contains the full version of my car’s story. There are a lot of pictures on the site so be forewarned.
I learned about this forum, as I am guessing many other new members did, from a letter in Mustang Times magazine. I lurked about for a while before I joined the forum and began posting as best I could. Hope I didn’t screw up to badly. Thanks to everyone for their posts and responses. I have learned more than I imagined from this forum, and at some point, I hope to be able to help and contribute as well.
My Mustang is very special to me as it was my Grandmother’s car. It has just been professionally restored and modified. I had been hesitant in my early posts to bring this up considering the vast majority of members here are DIY’ers, but since I haven’t gotten flamed or chased out yet, I’m guessing that’s not a major issue. On that topic, I have also learned a number of you are professional restorers as well, so it seems the vast spectrum of Mustang enthusiasts is well represented in the VMF population. I have seen several discussions where owners of restored cars were (rightly) flamed for having more money than sense and have no understanding of their car, its heritage or the effort put into the restoration. If you review my website you will see that I hopefully do not deserve that kind of scorn.
I have been on other forums and I have been (and in some cases still am) a member of other car clubs and organizations, and this forum is by far filled with some of the best people I have come across in this hobby. I am looking forward to many more discussions with the VMF community, and I hope to maybe meet some of you in the future. Hopefully I’ll be able to drive with some of you as well, because isn’t that what we REALLY like to do with cars anyway? Thanks for reading this.
Have a great day,
Tom Mendham
Good day everyone! I thought it was about time to do my Newbie introduction, ironic considering I have now moved on to Tire-Kicker status. With all the heavy discussions lately and tragic news among the people in the VMF community this may seen as completely off topic, but a formal introduction is something I have observed to be welcome, appropriate and well received among the regulars here.
My name is Tom, and my wife, dog and I live and work in central New Jersey. I’d been putting off this intro until my website was updated. Please go here: www.mendhams.com/cars The site contains the full version of my car’s story. There are a lot of pictures on the site so be forewarned.
I learned about this forum, as I am guessing many other new members did, from a letter in Mustang Times magazine. I lurked about for a while before I joined the forum and began posting as best I could. Hope I didn’t screw up to badly. Thanks to everyone for their posts and responses. I have learned more than I imagined from this forum, and at some point, I hope to be able to help and contribute as well.
My Mustang is very special to me as it was my Grandmother’s car. It has just been professionally restored and modified. I had been hesitant in my early posts to bring this up considering the vast majority of members here are DIY’ers, but since I haven’t gotten flamed or chased out yet, I’m guessing that’s not a major issue. On that topic, I have also learned a number of you are professional restorers as well, so it seems the vast spectrum of Mustang enthusiasts is well represented in the VMF population. I have seen several discussions where owners of restored cars were (rightly) flamed for having more money than sense and have no understanding of their car, its heritage or the effort put into the restoration. If you review my website you will see that I hopefully do not deserve that kind of scorn.
I have been on other forums and I have been (and in some cases still am) a member of other car clubs and organizations, and this forum is by far filled with some of the best people I have come across in this hobby. I am looking forward to many more discussions with the VMF community, and I hope to maybe meet some of you in the future. Hopefully I’ll be able to drive with some of you as well, because isn’t that what we REALLY like to do with cars anyway? Thanks for reading this.
Have a great day,
Tom Mendham
